I'm going to Nashville. Music city USA.
Nashville is heading towards being as far away as I possibly can be without coming back around again. Well technically it's the furthest city from Perth but it's still pretty far. Not just in terms of distance but it is quite possibly one of the most opposite types of places culturally to Sydney that you could get while still being part of the English speaking "western" world. Especially for me.
I'm heading to the home of fried meat and whiskey. The home of country music.
I'm a sober, vegetarian. Oh and I don't play country music. It's going to be great :D
Over the last 6 months as I've told people my plans I've had a lot of questions.
No one seemed particulately surprised about the moving overseas part but Nashville seemed to stump them. Why Nashville?
As I've already pointed out I don't play country music. I do love it but as I'm going to play not just listen to music the question was always the same. Why Nashville?
My answer: the craft
I love songwriting. Passionately, crazily love it. I love what music can do, to the mind, to the heart, and to the soul and I love that songwriting is about consciously creating these effects. So why Nashville?
Because they know songwriting. It isn't called Music City for nothing.
There are a lot of other US cities with great music history and culture. LA has pop and screen music, but it also has Hollywood. New York has musical theatre, jazz, hip hop, but it also has fashion, wall st, and the history of the New World.
Nashville is all about the music. Just about the music. That isn't to say that there aren't a lot of other things going on in Nashville but it always seemed to me to be somewhere that was dedicated to the craft of making music. Any time I'd hear someone speak about learning to write, co-writing or how certain people got their start Nashville always seemed to come up.
So I'm going. To see what it's all about, to have an adventure and most of all to learn.
For now though I'm just going to be on the hunt for some non-leather cowgirl boots. Wish me luck!
x
Nashville is all about the music. Just about the music. That isn't to say that there aren't a lot of other things going on in Nashville but it always seemed to me to be somewhere that was dedicated to the craft of making music. Any time I'd hear someone speak about learning to write, co-writing or how certain people got their start Nashville always seemed to come up.
So I'm going. To see what it's all about, to have an adventure and most of all to learn.
For now though I'm just going to be on the hunt for some non-leather cowgirl boots. Wish me luck!
x
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